3 November 2025: Robert Altman’s Gosford Park
As part of The Guardian’s “My Feelgood Movie” series, Laurence wrote about laying his head on Gosford Park‘s “Pillow of reality.”
28 June 2025: Wimbledon and the Plugged-In Tennis Court
Laurence’s Financial Times Feature Essay on the history of the tennis court as a place of both intense isolation and flamboyant intrusion.
18 January 2025: Mavis Gallant’s Uncollected Stories
“The Absurd, Dizzing Humanity of a 20th-Century Genius”: Laurence’s New York Times essay on the Canadian short-story writer.
15 October 2024: Surrealism Remixed, BBC Radio 4
Laurence contributed to an episode in this three-part series, selected for BBC Radio 4’s Pick of the Week. Listen to him consider the legacies and betrayals of Surrealism in today’s digitised world.
5 March 2024: Principal’s Conversations, Brasenose College, University of Oxford
“What the hell is going on with the AI Apocalypse?” A panel discussion with Eliane Glaser, Joanna Kavenna, David Malone and Laurence Scott
2023 has been hailed as ‘the year AI ate the internet’. Are we heading for an AI apocalypse or are Terminator-style prophecies overblown? Is the AI revolution already here? What about questions of democracy, transparency, ethics and freedom? Who decides the future?
21 March 2024: In Conversation with Alexandra Harris, London Review of Books Bookshop
Book tickets here!